#oldmanyellsatcloud — Public Fediverse posts
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So my local Board of Elections was kind enough to send me a postcard informing me that there were no non-partisan elections coming up next month for the primary, and therefore I wouldn't need to come to the polls, as I can't vote in them.
In other words, I'm in a closed primary state, where only the Democrats vote for their ilk, the Fasc^H^H^H^HRepublicans vote for theirs, and the winners of each go on to meet each other in the General in November. In other words, the playoffs, but for politics.
Which is how it should be, really, if parties are to mean anything. Of course, I do not vote like seemingly everyone else around me votes - they treat it like it's Survivor, apparently - so several states have, to my feelings, weirder ways of doing it. As an example, I think California has something called the "jungle primary" where literally everyone gets on the same ballot and they take the top two for a runoff, which is so mindbogglingly stupid that the person responsible should be beaten with a stick.
Of course, I also know about election methods, and wish that we could have Mixed Member Proportional for the legislature and maybe a Condorcet for single member seats (I'd accept AV or STV), but I'm in such a vanishingly small minority in that respect - as I discovered during my political career - that I soon realized that staying quiet about things was for the best. (I'm certainly not going to join up with the Republican or Democratic Parties for what should be obvious reasons.)
Side note: There's also Delegative, or "Liquid" Democracy, which I really find innovative, and we have the technology to pull it off, but again, we'd need to come to some sort of understanding about what #democracy is actually designed to do, and considering we're still having the "debate" about the Electoral Fucking College, I have no illusions of anything guided by a modicum of reason penetrating into the public consciousness in the foreseeable future.
#uspol #USElections #PrimaryElections #VotingMethods #cynicism #blathering #OldManYellsAtCloud -
@wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble
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@wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble
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@wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble
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@wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble
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@wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble
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I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
"The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
#AISlop
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
"The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
#AISlop
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
"The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
#AISlop
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
"The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
#AISlop
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
"The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
#AISlop
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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@EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.
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@EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.
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@EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.
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@EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.
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@EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.
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@CiaraNi Here's my contribution for the day.
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@CiaraNi Here's my contribution for the day.
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@CiaraNi Here's my contribution for the day.
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@CiaraNi Here's my contribution for the day.
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@CiaraNi Here's my contribution for the day.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116415063253642353
This level of hijack is really annoying.
Clean up your detritus, Big Networking!
Route ALL of your space!
Don’t keep unneeded ASNs around "just in case we need another one."
AND FILTER YOUR PEERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
#OldManYellsAtCloud
#InfoSec
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116415063253642353
This level of hijack is really annoying.
Clean up your detritus, Big Networking!
Route ALL of your space!
Don’t keep unneeded ASNs around "just in case we need another one."
AND FILTER YOUR PEERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
#OldManYellsAtCloud
#InfoSec
#IPHijack -
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116415063253642353
This level of hijack is really annoying.
Clean up your detritus, Big Networking!
Route ALL of your space!
Don’t keep unneeded ASNs around "just in case we need another one."
AND FILTER YOUR PEERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
#OldManYellsAtCloud
#InfoSec
#IPHijack -
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116415063253642353
This level of hijack is really annoying.
Clean up your detritus, Big Networking!
Route ALL of your space!
Don’t keep unneeded ASNs around "just in case we need another one."
AND FILTER YOUR PEERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
#OldManYellsAtCloud
#InfoSec
#IPHijack -
CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster
@ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.
It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)
#oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!
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CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster
@ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.
It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)
#oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!
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CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster
@ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.
It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)
#oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!
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CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster
@ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.
It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)
#oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!
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CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster
@ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.
It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)
#oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!
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I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.
If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.
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I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.
If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.
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I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.
If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.
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I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.
If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.
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I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.
If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.
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When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
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When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
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When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
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When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
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When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?
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Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
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Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
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Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
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Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
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Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.
More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.
And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.
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Music popularity charts were more fun when there were like six different music trade magazines and none of them told us how their charts were compiled and we never really knew if (for example) #StevieWonder's "Master Blaster" should have peaked at #1 (Cashbox) or #5 (Billboard) or #10 (Variety) or #15 (Record World). Now there's only Billboard and even Billboard doesn't like their charts ☹️ #OldManYellsAtCloud #Music #MusicBusiness #MusicHistory #Chartwatch #ChartGeek https://music3point0.com/2025/11/05/billboard-changes-its-charts-to-emphasize-new-music/
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Music popularity charts were more fun when there were like six different music trade magazines and none of them told us how their charts were compiled and we never really knew if (for example) #StevieWonder's "Master Blaster" should have peaked at #1 (Cashbox) or #5 (Billboard) or #10 (Variety) or #15 (Record World). Now there's only Billboard and even Billboard doesn't like their charts ☹️ #OldManYellsAtCloud #Music #MusicBusiness #MusicHistory #Chartwatch #ChartGeek https://music3point0.com/2025/11/05/billboard-changes-its-charts-to-emphasize-new-music/
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Music popularity charts were more fun when there were like six different music trade magazines and none of them told us how their charts were compiled and we never really knew if (for example) #StevieWonder's "Master Blaster" should have peaked at #1 (Cashbox) or #5 (Billboard) or #10 (Variety) or #15 (Record World). Now there's only Billboard and even Billboard doesn't like their charts ☹️ #OldManYellsAtCloud #Music #MusicBusiness #MusicHistory #Chartwatch #ChartGeek https://music3point0.com/2025/11/05/billboard-changes-its-charts-to-emphasize-new-music/
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Music popularity charts were more fun when there were like six different music trade magazines and none of them told us how their charts were compiled and we never really knew if (for example) #StevieWonder's "Master Blaster" should have peaked at #1 (Cashbox) or #5 (Billboard) or #10 (Variety) or #15 (Record World). Now there's only Billboard and even Billboard doesn't like their charts ☹️ #OldManYellsAtCloud #Music #MusicBusiness #MusicHistory #Chartwatch #ChartGeek https://music3point0.com/2025/11/05/billboard-changes-its-charts-to-emphasize-new-music/
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Music popularity charts were more fun when there were like six different music trade magazines and none of them told us how their charts were compiled and we never really knew if (for example) #StevieWonder's "Master Blaster" should have peaked at #1 (Cashbox) or #5 (Billboard) or #10 (Variety) or #15 (Record World). Now there's only Billboard and even Billboard doesn't like their charts ☹️ #OldManYellsAtCloud #Music #MusicBusiness #MusicHistory #Chartwatch #ChartGeek https://music3point0.com/2025/11/05/billboard-changes-its-charts-to-emphasize-new-music/